Danforth Campus, Cupples II, Room 203

Speaker:Allie LissSenior in Anthropology & GIS Certificate ProgramWashington University in St. Louis

Domestic and Sexual Violence Services – St. Louis, MO

This project focuses on the development of an AGOL mapping tool, created to help both service providers and survivors of domestic and sexual violence determine where resources are located, what services they provide, and what populations they serve. Allie has used her skills in GIS to create a usable public sector tool to assist in responding to gender based violence.

Danforth Campus, Lopata Hall, Room 201

Mapping Asthma: The Geography of Inequality

Dr. Harris uses GIS to identify ‘hotspots’ of childhood asthma in St. Louis. Higher asthma rates are linked with social and environmental disadvantage, and reduced educational outcomes. Harris’ research explores these relationships. Through data, she seeks to discover solutions to health inequalities in the St. Louis region and beyond.

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Tue, 16 Jan 2018 15:03:44 +0000http://gis.wustl.edu/dgs/?p=1300As of 01/16/2018 you will find all of the Data and GIS team in Olin Library, room A07. All contact information is the same. You are welcome to come say hello in our new space!
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Thu, 26 Oct 2017 17:07:09 +0000http://gis.wustl.edu/dgs/?p=883Washington University in St. Louis celebrates GIS Day with events showcasing

GIS in the Community!

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

GIS Day is an international event, now nearly 20 years old, which promotes spatial awareness, geography and geographic information systems (GIS). This year our theme of GIS in the Community will include on-campus speakers describing how they use GIS to impact community as well as an off-campus community service learning project.

Agenda

Morning Activities (Women’s Building, Formal Lounge, Danforth Campus)

Speakers to include:Amy Sorg
Senior Data Analyst
Brown School Evaluation Center
Washington University in St. LouisUsing GIS to Inform Program Recruitment and Retention

Ken Miller
Environmental Scientist
Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic
Washington University in St. LouisThe Wetlands Story Map: Engaging the Community in Clean Water Act Compliance

Laura Ginn
Research Scientist
Green City CoalitionPrioritizing Vacancy Demolitions and Green Space Conversions with a Combination of GIS Modeling and Participatory Mapping

Community Service Learning

In the afternoon (1:00pm), GIS students and staff will be traveling to a nearby elementary school to engage fourth graders in fun mapping activities. Prior registration is required to participate. Please contact Mollie Webb for more information.

Danforth Campus, Cupples II, Room 230

Speaker:Anne Trolard, MPHCenter Manager Public Health Data & Training Center Institute for Public Health | Washington University in St. Louis

Less than half of Americans meet recommendations for physical activity, and current methods of tracking activity levels (e.g self-reports, accelerometers) have significant issues. Advancements in proximity technology may be used to assess physical activity at lower costs and with more straight-forward measurements. We used proximity technology, specifically Bluetooth beacons, to measure movement of study participants in two Washington University buildings for a two week period in May 2017. Results show that beacons may be a viable option, but many facets must still be addressed.

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Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:32:48 +0000http://gis.wustl.edu/dgs/?p=603New to GIS? Please join us in the Introduction to GIS course this fall. You’ll learn and have fun using data to perform analysis and create maps. It’s the first step toward a GIS certificate. For those who have already completed the intro course you can sign up for Advanced GIS, Digital Cartography or Spatial Data Modeling & Design. Read more about these courses in the Bulletin!

Many funders, including the NSF, DOE, DOD, NIH, and the Gates Foundation, are now requiring the sharing and/or management of data that results from funded research. Services are available through WU Libraries Data & GIS Services to help WU principal investigators with funder mandated data sharing and management plans (DMP’s).​

To assist WU PI’s in this endeavor, WU Libraries provide DMP services which include the drafting and review of DMP’s, consultations on data management best practices, recommendations on data archiving and sharing, metadata schemas, and more.

Many libraries, including WU, are providing services and support in the area of research data curation. To ensure that data is reusable for the long term a number of treatments and activities must be taken on the data, such as the addition of documentation, metadata, methods, readme files and more. To learn just how libraries are archiving and curating data, check out this recently released Data Curation (#354) SPEC Kit commissioned by the Association of Research Libraries.

If you need a place to take care of your data – and archive it, contact the WU Libraries Data Services at dataservices@wustl.edu.